Index

Series Foreword		                                                       ix	
Acknowledgments and Credits		                                       xi	

    Introduction 
    Art that Looks You in the Eye: Hybrids, Clones, Mutants, Synthetics, and 
    Transgenics		                                                        1	
    Eduardo Kac

I   Biotech Culture                                                            29	

1   Open Source DNA and Bioinformatic Bodies                                   31	
    Eugene Thacker

2   Ornamental Biotechnology and Parergonal Aesthetics                         43	
    Gunalan Nadarajan 

3   Embodying the Chimera: Biotechnology and Subjectivity                      57	
    Bernard Andrieu

4   The Transgenic Involution                                                  69	
    Richard Doyle

5   Life Art                                                                   83	
    Louis Bec

II  Bioethics                                                                  93	

6   Bioethics and the Posthumanist Imperative                                  95	
    Cary Wolfe

7   Blood and Bioethics in the Biotechnology Age                              115	
    Dorothy Nelkin

8   Art as a Public Policy Medium                                             125	
    Lori B. Andrews

9   Liberating Life from Itself: Bioethics and Aesthetics of Animality        151	
    Dominique Lestel

III Bio Art                                                                   161	

10  Life Transformation---Art Mutation                                        163	
    Eduardo Kac

11  Why I Breed Plants                                                        185	
    George Gessert

12  Chlorophyll Apparitions                                                   199	
    Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey

13  Good and Evil on the Long Voyage                                          211	
    Paul Perry

14  Art: in vivo and in vitro                                                 215	
    Marta de Menezes

15  Semi-Living Art                                                           231	
    Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr

16  Cases for Genetic Art                                                     249	
    Joe Davis

17  VivoArts                                                                  267	
    Adam Zaretsky

18  The Relative Velocity Inscription Device                                  277	
    Paul Vanouse

19  Proteins                                                                  285	
    Regina Trindade

20  Skin Culture                                                              291	
    Object-Oriented Art (Marion Laval-Jeantet Benoit Mangin)

21  Repro Duction                                                             295	
    Davidkremers

22  OneTree                                                                   301	
    Natalie Jeremijenko

23  The Art of Unnatural Selection                                            303	
    Brandon Ballengee

24  Genomic Portrait                                                          309	
    Marc Quinn

IV  Biology and Art History                                                   313	

25  The Origins of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's Biocentric Constructivism             315	
    Oliver A. I. Botar

26  The Growth of Microorganisms on Paper                                     345	
    Alexander Fleming

27  Edward Steichen's 1936 Exhibition of Delphinium Blooms: An Art of Flower 
    Breeding                                                                  347	
    Ronald J. Gedrim

28  On Science                                                                371	
    Vilem Flusser

29  From Genetic Perspective to Biohistory: The Ambiguities of Looking Down, 
    Across, and Beyond                                                        373	
    Barbara Maria Stafford

30  Art and Biotechnology                                                     387	
    Yves Michaud

    Contributors		                                              395	
    Index		                                                      401